What part of speech is ownership?

Ownership can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

Inflections

Noun

What does ownership mean?

Definitions

Noun

ownership - the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others
ownership - the state or fact of being an owner
ownership - the act of having and controlling property

Examples of ownership

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1. noun Its projected demand, boosted by a huge rise in car ownership as well as the need to find alternatives to polluting coal for electricity generation, has contributed to the surge in the price of oil this year.
2. noun There was a change of ownership a couple of years ago and service is both quick and extremely friendly.
3. noun Gone downhill since change in ownership.
4. noun Management of a company is different from ownership of a company.
5. noun Our ownership in the company is 60%.
6. noun He renounced the ownership of the land.
7. noun They disputed the ownership of the land for years.
8. noun The earliest form of ownership is an ownership of the women by the able bodied men of the community.
9. noun The ownership of women begins in the lower barbarian stages of culture, apparently with the seizure of female captives. The original reason for the seizure and appropriation of women seems to have been their usefulness as trophies.
10. noun Water law is the field of law dealing with the ownership, control, and use of water as a resource.
11. noun The U.S. gun ownership rate is the highest in the world.
12. noun Ownership is an option.
13. noun Though some have been claiming ownership of extraterrestrial land, to include the Moon, are these claims bona fide?
14. noun I transferred ownership of the car to my spouse.
15. noun Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to set policy, employees' right to status and security, government's right to regulate. Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms.
Sentence  
noun
Its projected demand, boosted by a huge rise in car ownership as well as the need to find alternatives to polluting coal for electricity generation, has contributed to the surge in the price of oil this year.
There was a change of ownership a couple of years ago and service is both quick and extremely friendly.
Gone downhill since change in ownership.
Management of a company is different from ownership of a company.
Our ownership in the company is 60%.
He renounced the ownership of the land.
They disputed the ownership of the land for years.
The earliest form of ownership is an ownership of the women by the able bodied men of the community.
The ownership of women begins in the lower barbarian stages of culture, apparently with the seizure of female captives. The original reason for the seizure and appropriation of women seems to have been their usefulness as trophies.
Water law is the field of law dealing with the ownership, control, and use of water as a resource.
The U.S. gun ownership rate is the highest in the world.
Ownership is an option.
Though some have been claiming ownership of extraterrestrial land, to include the Moon, are these claims bona fide?
I transferred ownership of the car to my spouse.
Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to set policy, employees' right to status and security, government's right to regulate. Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms.

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